Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Localization of LibreOffice in Urdu Language

Walaikumussalam Michael,

Brother, thank you so much for this warm welcome and encouragement.

I am going to follow your guidelines and will ask you for help throughout
this journey.

Yes, you are right about Hindi and Urdu, as both occur "mostly" in the same
geographical region. But, I think when it comes to save time, I would
prefer to use Google Translate for English > Urdu translation rather than
Hindi > Urdu translation. And this is because I think if go for Hindi >
Urdu translation, it will be in-fact
English > Hindi > Urdu.
I think you are getting my point that I do not want to go for a "second or
third level" translation. I want to translate  directly from the root-level
language.

Once again thank you for your consideration.

Regards
Yasir Aman

Note: I have joined the forum with nick name "urdulizer" :)


On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Michael Bauer <fios@akerbeltz.org> wrote:

> Just a thought in passing... I see that Hindi is 83% translated. I *know*
> the two are not exactly the same language (i.e. that Urdu uses more
> Persian/Arabic terminology, rather than Sanskrit) but I wonder if it could
> save Yasir a lot of time if there was a way of converting the completed
> Hindi strings into Urdu script and add them as fuzzy matches? He'd still
> have to proofread them but that's often quicker than translating from
> scratch.
>
> I've had a quick look but most converters go from Latin script <>
> Nastaliq/Nagari but not between the two.
>
> Although, Google Translate can do Hindi > Urdu. Is that an option? Virtaal
> is capable of using Google Translate (http://translate.sourceforge.**
> net/wiki/virtaal/features<http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/features>)
> but I have no experience of it as my locale isn't on GT.
>
>
> Michael
>
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